Actually i think Jefferson was a confirmed agnostic.
and Thomas Paine, who keep the spirits of the revolution alive with his underground newspaper 1776-1783 called "Common Sense" and various other pamphlets.. and was a good friend to Thomas Jefferson, so much so that Jefferson sent war ships to France to rescue him after trying to tell Napoleon how to run his revolution. *LMAO*.. anyway ..he was vitually run out of the US for writing in 1794, The Age of Reason in which he writes:
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"Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians have their Jesus Christ, and the Turks their Mahomet, as if the way to God was not open to every man alike. Each of those churches share certain books, which they call revelation, or their Word of God. The Jews say that God gave their Word of God to Moses face to face. The Christians say that their Word of God came by divine inspiration, and the Turks say their Word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from heaven. Each of these churches accuses the others of unbelief, and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all."
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At least Jefferson had the sense Not to thump the bible and invade Turkey!!
Too many things are done in the name of "god".. i'd like to think she has a real belly laugh over some of them.
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